Well, Windows 8 installed in 9 minutes in a virtual machine (on my Mac no less). Everything runs smooth. Nice to see a little bit of polish on a consumer preview. We'll play with it for the next couple of weeks and see how it goes.

The Metro UI is such a phenomenal waste of desktop real estate. Its coexistence with the ribbon and Aero UI is terrible Ux. And to top it all off, force-feeding Metro to desktop/laptop users is actually a reduction in productivity and usable desktop space.

The Metro UI is such a phenomenal waste of desktop real estate. Its coexistence with the ribbon and Aero UI is terrible Ux. And to top it all off, force-feeding Metro to desktop/laptop users is actually a reduction in productivity and usable desktop space.

This is why I decided NOT to sell my Macbook pro, Going back to windows made me shudder

The Metro UI is such a phenomenal waste of desktop real estate. Its coexistence with the ribbon and Aero UI is terrible Ux. And to top it all off, force-feeding Metro to desktop/laptop users is actually a reduction in productivity and usable desktop space.

This is why I decided NOT to sell my Macbook pro, Going back to windows made me shudder

I hope this isn't turning into the usual Mac/Windows discussion, there are plenty of other shitty sites to read that on.

But I agree with the statements about UI. Having used it for a while, Metro is clearly meant for fingers, not mice. I think there are some cool things, like docking (snap) to the sides. But those will have to be easier with a mouse than they are today. Overall, it's heading in the right direction if you can have phone-tablet-desktop with a similar and working interface. The trifecta that no one else has been able to create.